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swill

/swil/US // swɪl //UK // (swɪl) //

泔水,沼泽,燕窝,醉酒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
    • : kitchen refuse in general; garbage.
    • : any liquid mess, waste, or refuse; slop.
    • : a deep draught of liquor.
    • : contemptibly worthless utterance or writing; drivel.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to drink greedily or excessively.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to drink greedily or to excess; guzzle.
    • : to feed with swill: to swill hogs.
    • : Chiefly British. to wash by rinsing or flooding with water.

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Examples

  • The cinnamon-flavored swill has been recalled in Europe over a chemical found in antifreeze.

  • For millions of Americans, it represents bottom-shelf, super-market swill of college parties yore.

  • As one friend remarked, when I confessed that I liked Wagner, “Megan has an unusually high tolerance for bombastic swill”.

  • It was when one of the table-legs overturned the swill-pail that the long pent-up storm burst in a torrent of invective.

  • The corners of its mouth are permanently turned up so that it can hardly stop smiling even when it is squealing for swill.

  • She was so full that we were afraid to give her the usual ration of swill for fear she would swell up and burst.

  • Lightning flashed and forked athwart the clouded firmament, from which fell rain, not in drops, but sheets—a very swill of it.

  • Then I went goes in a quick way to the singing creek where the willows grow, to get the swill-smells off.